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Like a Berliner: The New Book by Sophia Halamoda & iHeartBerlin

Get ready for something really exciting. For years now we have been quietly cooking up a very special project together with the talented illustrator Sophia Halamoda, whose amazing work we’ve been featuring on the blog for a few years now. You might remember her iconic Berghain comic, the hacks on how to become a “Real Berliner”, the Winter guide and the Flatmate Roulette. All of these beloved illustrated stories have just been the foreplay for something bigger: Our brand new big book “Like A Berliner” is ~~coming out in just a few weeks~~ is out now! It is most likely the cheekiest Berlin guidebook you’ve ever seen – and we~~‘re throwing~~ hosted a party to celebrate its launch in collaboration with Bikini Berlin – the innovative concept mall in the West of Berlin.

DISCO BALL CITY – A Comic Exhibition

by Frank | Exhibition

Comic artist Sophia Halamoda, iHeartBerlin and The Social Hub invite you to a Berlin-themed comic exhibition you didn’t see coming…

Register for (free) tickets here.

Following the success of their previous project, the widely praised Like A Berliner book that showed life in Berlin in all of its colors, Sophia Halamoda and iHeartBerlin stuck their heads together again to come up with some new hilarious characters and comics directing a spotlight on Berlin’s infamous and vibrant club culture. All of them will come together at DISCO BALL CITY – the new comic exhibition opening on May 3rd at The Social Hub Berlin.

With a big sense of humor and self-irony, the exhibition will portray those curious club kids and party people that make the city’s nightlife so unique. In the center of it all and as a guiding light through the Berlin night stands the iconic TV tower that for many resembles a giant disco ball – it couldn’t be a more suitable symbol for Berlin.

In collaboration with the beautiful and colorful space of The Social Hub, the artist will create a unique immersive comic installation that will let visitors step right into her comic phantasies during the exhibition opening on May 3rd. Sophia will also do a live drawing session where you can become a part of her Halamodiverse and present several of her incredibly witty comic books as well as prints of her most iconic works and other surprises.

Hold tight for this exhibition that will take you on a journey through the night of this one-of-a-kind metropolis, through the eyes of Sophia Halamoda, iHeartBerlin, and The Social Hub.

Exhibition Opening: May 3rd, 2023, 19:00h

The Social Hub, Alexanderstr. 40, 10179 Berlin-Mitte

The exhibition runs until May 31st, open daily around the clock.

Fantastic Playground Berlin Opening Recap

by Frank | Art, Events, Party, Photos

As some of you already know we are right in the middle of our new group exhibition Fantastic Playground Berlin that you can still visit until Saturday at the Marcell von Berlin Flagship Store on Friedrichstraße 172. We have been planning this show for a long time now and we still can’t believe that it finally materialized, and it looks so much more amazing than we ever could have wished for.

This exhibition is really special to us because for the first time we had a theme that allowed us to create something like a retrospective of our work for iHeartBerlin for the past 15 years. Berlin is a playground of ideas – this has always been an important theme for us as we featured all these wonderful and inspiring projects from different creative scenes that make up Berlin. It’s so diverse and fun and colorful. To us, it’s the essence of Berlin and why this city is so special. It feels like everyone can find their space on this wild playground.

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Fantastic Playground Berlin

by Michalina | Exhibition

iHeartBerlin is inviting you to their new group exhibition Fantastic Playground Berlin.

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For decades Berlin has been the secret creative hub of Europe. From music to art. From theater to architecture. From techno to science. Berlin became the place where cultures clashed – but in a good way.
In the group exhibition “Fantastic Playground Berlin”, the city and culture magazine iHeartBerlin wants to celebrate the unique diversity of Berlin’s creative scenes and invite the visitors to discover their secrets and potential.
The exhibition will consist of several pieces by visual artists including photographers, illustrators, designers, and video artists. On the opening night, a cast of unique performers will invite the audience to immerse themselves into the fantastic playground of Berlin.
The selection of the involved artists displays intersectional positions and gives space to marginalized and queer voices and performers. Many of them struggled during the lockdown not only financially but also for artistic recognition since most places where they used to work had to close and artistic grants were given to only a few. With vaccines and testing possibilities, it’s time to give the creative scene the space and recognition they deserve for making Berlin so unique.
A little preview of the exhibition
The Fantastic Playground Berlin is supported by the Bezirksamt Mitte.

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Opening Night:
June 4th, 18-23h
With interactive performances
(Guestlist Only)
Sign up to our newsletter on iHeartBerlin.de to find out how to get on the guestlist!
Exhibition:
June 7 – 11, 2022
Tue-Fri 10-19h, Sat 10-17h
Free Entry, Open to the public

Participating Artist
Kseniya Apresyan, Josefine Aspvik, Mischa Badasyan, Laura Breiling, Dorit Bialer, Javier Alejandro Cerrada, Annique Delphine, Luke Emden, Sophia Halamoda, Alessendra Mannisi, Rory Midhani, Nicola Napoli, Jessie Omamogho, Bruno Pinto da Cruz, Richard Quittenton, Benedikt Rugar, Andrej Russkovskij, Various & Gould, Very Ugly Plates, Xuehka

Location:
Marcell von Berlin
Friedrichstr. 172
10117 Berlin-Mitte
www.iheartberlin.de

Fantastic Playground Berlin – iHeartBerlin’s New Exhibition

by Frank | Art

illustration: Laura Breiling.

Today, we are proud to announce our next big group exhibition “Fantastic Playground Berlin” which will celebrate the unique diversity of Berlin’s creative scene. It’s been a couple of years now since our last big exhibition Uncensored Berlin so we thought it was about time to do a new one. The last two years during the pandemic with its various lockdowns and restrictions have not been easy for the art and culture scene – nor have they been easy for us. This new show is our effort to reclaim spaces and draw the attention back to the creative people that we care about so much.

For decades Berlin has been the secret creative hub of Europe. From music to art. From theater to architecture. From techno to science. Berlin became the place where cultures clash – but in a good way.

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A Different Kind of Selfcare Guide

by Frank | Stories

If we’ve learned anything in the past 1,5 years is that we really really need to be more aware of our own mental health and wellbeing than ever before. Self-care was of course already a thing before the pandemic, but it certainly reached a wider audience during it due to the mental stress and isolation many of us went through.

But of course, self-care is a very subjective practice and everyone has a different understanding of it. From sharing inspirational quotes on Instagram, visiting yoga classes, or taking the time to cook a healthy dinner for one – self-care has so many faces. My personal version of self-care is taking a long bath with tinted green lights while fantasizing about hikes in the tropical jungle, and sometimes I take myself out to brunch alone. On the other hand, we have this writer who joins orgies as a form of self-care. Well, everyone to their own, right?

Our partner in crime Sophia Halamoda, with who we published the fabulous Like A Berliner book, has come out with an adorable comic about her own self-care routine, and let’s say, it is really of a different kind… But look for yourself!

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10 Things that Make the Berlin Summer so Amazing

by Burak | Stories

illustrations: Sophia Halamoda.

As a native Istanbulite, summers always meant eluding the city as soon as possible with everlasting fear of crowds, the heatwaves and the tourists during the entire three months. Leaving the city in summer is almost a global tradition for every metropolitan, except for Berliners. We prefer to foray into foreign lands in winters, but every true Berliner knows in their heart that our city is exceptionally beautiful and sexy in the summer, and we don’t want to skip a bit of it.

Inspired by some of the chapters in our book Like A Berliner, we narrowed down our favorite activities that make Berlin so special in summer. If you enjoy it, you should get the limited summer package including our 2 books Like A Berliner, Learn Deutsch with iHeartBerlin and the “Summer in Berlin” poster in our webshop!

7 Awesome New Books from Berlin

by Michalina | Books

A great way to support your local artist community and look smart at the same time is investing in some books! In this post, you’ll find an assortment of recent publications from or about Berlin, representing all kinds of genres – some will broaden your knowledge about the city, while others are simply too fun to miss. Prepare to impress your visitors with a cool Berlin book on your shelf (once dinner parties are a thing again!).

What to Do When Your Friends Are in Crisis Mode

by Frank | Stories

It’s kind of hard to admit this, but to be brutally honest: I’m not doing great. It’s surprising after a year of the Corona crisis. I feel like 50% of my time I have to invest into staying somewhat sane which means a lot of other stuff gets left behind. But when I look around me, some of my friends seem in even darker places and that’s a scary thing because how can you be of support if you yourself are also not in the best place. Maybe you can’t. But maybe you can at least not do anything completely wrong.

Our friend and collaborator Sophia Halamoda who we co-created our Like A Berliner book with, has dedicated a brand new comic to this very sensitive topic. In it, she describes how she believes we should treat our friends that are in crisis mode and it takes a particularly close look at the very difficult but very real topic of toxic positivity. It’s something we have all probably mindlessly practiced once and this particular situation is making it clear, how that is a rather lazy cop-out than actual help.

The Big Corona Quiz: What Quarantine Type Are You?

by Frank | Pandemic

The second lockdown is holding on to our sorry asses and it looks like it will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. It’s a bleak outlook, I know, but what can you do other than trying to make the best of it, right? Did I just hear you say: “Shut up!”? Well, fair enough.

I think I’m not exaggerating when I say this whole corona era has been a mixed bag. While some of us have our sanity hanging on a thin thread by now, others finally got the time they needed for self-fulfillment. I’ve seen people falling in the abyss of mental unwellness, while others keep on trucking with their lives as if nothing has happened. People’s responses to the pandemic and the lockdown could not be more divisive.

But how are you doing, dear iHeartBerlin reader? We were wondering about this so we sat together with our cherished collaborator Sophia Halamoda with whom we authored the fabulous Like A Berliner book and created a brand new personality quiz to find out what quarantine type you really are. It’s fully illustrated by the lovely Sophia, so make sure to check out all the cute little details in the drawings. We hope they can brighten your day a little.

Click here to do the Quarantine Quiz!

Whatever your end result of this quiz might be, always remember, we’re all in this together and there will be another, happier day. Whenever that might be…